2. draw [ v ] attract or elicitExamples:"The school attracts students with artistic talents""His playing drew a crowd""The painting fetched more than a million at the auction""The star cast pulled many people to the box office"

Used in print:

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

Apart from spirit there could be no community , for it is spirit which draws men into community and gives to any community its unity , cohesiveness , and permanence .

It is the spirit which is the source of a community 's drawing_power by means of which others are drawn into it from the world outside so_that the community grows and prospers .

(Francis Pollini, Night....)

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind .

(E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)

The doctor , with the air of a man whose professional interests have found scope , drew Alex 's attention to those excellences which might otherwise have escaped him : the fine color in comb and wattles , the length and quality of neck and saddle_hackles , the firm , wide spread of the toes , and a rare justness in the formation of the ear lappets .

(Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)

As Andy reached the finale of his act , a subdued commotion backstage drew his attention to the wings .

3. draw [ v ] get or deriveExamples:"He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

Used in print:

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

Poor where they had once been rich , humbled where they had been arrogant , having no_longer any hope of sharing_in the leadership of the nation , the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother_country .

(Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)

They are segregated businesses , combining again on one site the factory and the office , drawing their work_force from segregated communities .

It is interesting to note how many of the plants on Massachusetts ' Route_128 draw most of their income either from the government in non-competitive cost-plus arrangements , or from the exploitation of patents which grant at_least a partial monopoly .

4. draw [ v ] make, formulate, or derive in the mindExamples:"I draw a line here""draw a conclusion""draw parallels""make an estimate""What do you make of his remarks?"

Used in print:

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

The North should thank_its_stars that such has been the case ; but at_the_same_time it should not draw false inferences therefrom .

(Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)

Thus , direct comparisons can be drawn with free_burning arcs which have been studied in_detail during the past years and decades by numerous investigators ( Ref. 3 ) .

(Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)

Until better records have been kept over longer periods_of_time and much more is known about the maximum dimensions , it will be wise to refrain_from drawing conclusions .

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

The same conclusions can be drawn from the other physical evidence of the Dark_ages , from linguistic distribution , and from the survivals of early social , political , and religious patterns into later ages .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

Far from it ; I merely draw an etymological distinction , hoping that specialists and busy people like you will welcome such precision in a layman .

5. draw [ v ] make a mark or lines on a surfaceExamples:"draw a line""trace the outline of a figure in the sand"

Used in print:

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

As the time drew_near for the drawing of the British American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818 , the company suspected that the Pembina_colony - its own post and Fort_Daer - was on American territory .

(Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)

Since the difficulty of drawing the net is great , we will merely discuss it .

10. draw [ v ] take liquid out of a container or wellExamples:"She drew water from the barrel"

Used in print:

(M. Yokoyama et al., "Chemical and serological...)

The red_cells for the Rh_antibody tests were used within 3 days after drawing except for the * * f cells , which had been glycerolized and stored at - 20 ` C for approximately 1 year .

Successive 1 - ml fractions were then drawn off with a hypodermic_syringe , starting at the top of the tube , and tested for agglutinin activity .

(Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)

The importance of knowing in what chemical forms the hormone may exist is accentuated by the recent observation that there exists an abnormally long-acting TSH in blood drawn from many thyrotoxic patients ( Adams , 1958 ) .

11. draw [ v ] suck in or take, as of airExamples:"draw a deep breath"draw on a cigarette"

Used in print:

(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)

He thought how this dainty , fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June , enjoying the flowers in the shops , the greetings from old friends , but never really drawing a deep , passionate breath , was so like himself .

In repetitions of the experiment from couple to couple , the votes of the two persons in a couple probably agree more often than independence would imply , because couples who visit the museum together are more likely to have similar tastes than are a random pair of people drawn from the entire population of visitors .

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

Capital imports drawn from a number of sources must be employed and combined skillfully enough to permit domestic investment programming to go_forward .

17. draw [ v ] bring or lead someone to a certain action or conditionExamples:"She was drawn to despair""The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum""The session was drawn to a close"

Used in print:

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

And like Jo_March , who saw her sisters Meg and Amy involved in `` lovering '' before herself , Henrietta saw her sisters Rachel and Sadie drawn outside their family circle by the attraction of suitors , Rachel by Joe_Jastrow , and Sadie by Max_Lobl , a young businessman who would write her romantic descriptions of his trips by steamboat down the Mississippi .